Why Are Nerds/Geeks/Academics Considered Unattractive?

Biology, females are attracted to those which can protect them. Survival of the fittest

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Why can't you be a muscular 6 foot nerd?

Oh wait... you can...

My boyfriend is a geek and he is very attractive

According to Hollywood, glasses make you a hideously ugly freak but the second you take them off everyone will realise you were a supermodel all along.

Why are the physically athletic/"jock"/in shape people usually considered attractive instead?

It's completely discriminatory Many nerd guys are very nice

He sounds nice but most women don't like geeky guys, unless they have other qualities (e.g. model like faces which I lack )

Athletic guys to me are considered to be unattractive.
I lovd geeky guys!

Exactly. Being very nice [in the sense it's usually applied to nerds] is a characteristic which women like in a friend, not a sexual partner.

Yeah, but "academic" guys can protect a woman with their brains/smarts too, just in a different way.

Homo sapiens' defining thing is our intelligence. Who is more likely to survive, an intelligent 5"5 skinny "nerd" or a dumb as rocks 6"0 muscular "jock"?

Thank you

even if they are overweight?

What the hell is an academic bad boy?!

In our state of nature, ie what we're evolved to find attractive? The jock.

Also, a lot of "geeky" things aren't really linked to intelligence, like cosplay or computer games. Nerds, who are more into science and maths and stuff, tend to get the girlies once they get good jobs and that.

Rather than be defined by a stereotype, you should to keep a balance. A lot of geeks are irritating because they won't talk about anything but their geeky interest. Like I had a friend who got into that Magic card game, I didn't judge, but he wouldn't shut up about it, trying to get me to play, I wasn't interested. I love football, but if someone doesn't like it, I accept that. I have a pretty obsessive nature so can become properly geeky about things, like Game of Thrones, but if you let it take over, girls aren't generally going to be interested, they tend to have a less obsessive nature.